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“I was,” Remus corrected, hitting each syllable like a nail. “Past tense. Whatever you’re trying to say about me, about us, that ended tonight.” The hand on the curtain tightened. “As of now, you and I are nothing.”
The silence that followed didn’t feel empty. It felt total. Sirius’s grip loosened. The fabric slid a few centimetres through his fingers before he caught it again, but there was no strength behind it now. The fight went out of his arms as if someone had reached inside and flipped a switch.
“But… I love you,” he said.
It came out small. For a boy who’d always worn confidence like a cloak, the words were shockingly bare. No flair, no bravado. Just a cracked confession, a final offering held out with shaking hands.
“You don’t do this to someone you love.”
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Or after the prank, nothing is the same between the Marauders anymore: Regulus is ready to blow everything up for having left his brother in what are clearly the wrong hands (Evan and Barty in tow), Remus is a wreck, and Sirius is going down with him.
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To be with you in paradise. What I wouldn't sacrifice. (Eternity by Alex Warren)
“But… the way she talks about it, about hell— it’s supposed to be a punishment, I know. But sometimes I feel like, like it might be the only place where you’d be allowed to just… be yourself.” Her voice was trembling now. “And if you are really, if you’re really a demon… then so be it. Then hell doesn’t sound like a prison at all. Not compared to here. Not compared to this.”
Sirius blinked, throat tight. “Oh, little star..”
“But—” Her hands came up to wipe his face, with her lower lip trembling so hard it was almost impossible to speak. “But I don’t think I’d go with you. I try to be good, I follow the rules, I listen. And she says that’s what keeps you safe. That’s what gets you up there. And if she’s right— Sirius, if she’s even half right, what if that means we’ll be separated forever?”
There it was. Not fear of fire. Not even fear of damnation. Just the unbearable thought of being torn from his brother. Forever.
“I don’t want paradise if you’re not in it,” she whispered.